Lorraine at home

Despair? Did someone say despair was a question in the world? Well then, listen to the sons of those who have known little else if you wish to know the resiliency of this thing you would so quickly resign to mythhood, this thing called the human spirit.

Hansberry drawing in the bedroom of her Greenwich Village apartment. Photo by David Attie. David Attie photographed Hansberry to accompany a 1960 Vogue magazine article. One of the images in the series is part of the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute.